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Appraise FUwa oLure: WE -4
Initial Cost: 10
Power Score: Int -4 Maintenancecost: M
Initial Cost: 14 Range: touch
Maintenance Cost: M Preparation Time: 5
Range: 0 Area of Heck individual
Preparation Time: 0 Prerequisites: psychic surgery,
Area of Effect: personal 5th level
Prerequisites: none
With aura alteration, a psionicist can tem-
With this power, a psionicist can determine porarily disguise a person's a l i i e n t , dis-
the likelihood that a specific course of action guise his level, or remove aura afflictions like
will succeed. He focuses on a course of action curses, geases, and quests.
and examines the possibilities. He assigns Disguisiia character's alignment or level is
probabilities. Then he mentally processes the easiest to do. The disguise is temporary,
enormous calculations to amve at an overall lasting only 1-6 hours. It has no effect on the
probability of success. character's real a l i i e n t or class, but a
In game play, the character must first pass a psionicist with aura sight will be fooled by the
power check. If he does, the DM must reveal fake aura.
the percentage chance for the plan or action's Because curses, geases, and quests are im-
success. Exact odds may be difficult or impos- printed on the character's aura, they can be re-
sible to determine, but the DM should provide moved with this power. A psionicist who tries
his most accurate, honest appraisal. this suffers a -6 penalty to his power score
No one, not even a psionicist, can foresee and must expend 20 PSPs instead of 10. If the
the future with assured accuracy. Like precog- die roll is 1,the psionicist's patient must make
nition, the success of this power depends on a saving throw vs. spells to avoid losing one
how closely the characters adhere to their experience level. (A slip of the psychic scalpel
plans. Do they act as they intended? React as can close off vital parts of the brain.)
they intended? What factors did they fail to Power Score-No other effect.
foresee? Every deviation steers events away 20-The full PSP cost of the power must be
from the predicted path. If this power is used, paid despite the lack of success, and this
the DM should give the best answer he can, psionicist cannot alter thiis aura until he
based on information the characters have. achieves a higher experience level.
Factors they don't know about, and therefore
can't take into account while forming a plan, Empower
can change things dramatically.
Power Score-The player is allowed to re- Power Score: Wis -12
roll any three die rolls to help make his charac- Initial cost: Varies
ter's forecast more accurate. Maintenance Cost: na
20-The psionicist can't use this power suc- Range: touch
cessfully again for ld4 days. PreparationTme: 0
Area of Hect: 1item
Prerequisites: 10th level
This is not a tool for weak or inexperienced
characters. Empower allows a psionicist to im-
bue an item with rudimentary intelligence and
psionic ability. The process, which requires ex-
traodinary time and effort, is described below.
Item Requirements. An item must meet two
requirements before it can be empowered.
First, it must be of exceptional quality-worth
250% to 500% of the normal cost for an item
of its type. Second, it must be new. The proc-
ess of empowering must begin within 48 hours
after the item is manufactured. If it is delayed
longer, the item cannot be empowered. (If the
psionicist still tries, he automatically fails Step
One below, expending 50 PSPs.) If the item
meets these two requirements, the psionicist
can begin the empowerment.
Step One. At the start of each day, the
psionicist must first prepare the item to receive
psionic power. This costs 50 PSPs and requires
a power check. If this check fails, the day is
wasted; no further progress can be made until
the next day.
Step Two. If the item has been prepared, the
psionicist can give it access to a discipline. It
can have access to only one discipline, never
more, and the psionicist himself must have ac-
cess to it. This step costs 100PSPs and requires
a power check.
Step Three. The psionicist can attempt to
empower the item with any single power he
knows within the chosen discipline. (The item
must have been properly prepared on the same
day.) The psionicist must make two successful
power checks: first, a check for the chosen
power (using the appropriate power score),
and second, another empower check. If both
checks succeed, the item has that psionic
power, with a score two points below the
psionicist's. If Step Three is successful, the
psionicist expends another 100 PSPs. (Failure
means he expends half that amount, as usual.)
Step Four. The psionicist can imbue the item
with other powers by repeating Step Three. The
item can acquire one power per day, provided it
has been properly prepared (see Step One).
Step Five. When the item has acquired all
the powers which the psionicist intends to give
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it, the psionicist can seal those powers within
the item. To do this, he must prepare the item
one more time (expending50 PSPs), and make
an endowment power check one last time. If
the item is sealed successfully, it can never gain
any additional powers-but it can't lose them,
either. An item that has not been sealed will
lose one power per month until it is just a nor-
mal object again.
An empowered object has 8 PSPs per devo-
tion and 12 per science. It has Intelligence equal
to its maker's Intelligence minus Id6 points,
with a minimum of 12.Its ego is 2 points per de-
votion and 3 points per science. Unless it was
empowered with another telepathic power, it
communicates as indicated on Table 113,
'Weapon Intelligence and Capabilities" in the
Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 186, A & P 2nd
Edition). Its alignment matches its ueator's.
The weapon has its own personality, however,
and likeall intelligent weapons, it will try to as-
sert its independence at every opportunity.
The empowering process must be unbro-
ken. If a day passes in which the psionicist
does not at feast try to prepare the object, it is
finished as is. He cannot even try to seal the
powers; they will wear off over the course of
time.
Power Score-No other effect.
20-If three 20's are rolled during the em-
powering process, the item is a complete and
utter failure.
Psychic Clone
Power Score: Wis - 8
Initial Cost: 50
Maintenance Cost: 5/round
Range: 60 feet
Preparation Time: 10 rounds
Area of Effect: special
Prerequisites: dairaudience,
dairvoyance, psychic
messenger, 5th level
When this power is initiated, a clone of the
psionicist steps out of his body. It is in every
 way identical to the original form, except that
it has no substance. The psioniast can see and
hear what the clone sees and hears. The clone
will do anything the psionicist wants it to (as if
it wete actually him). Furthermore, the psioni-
cist's psyche goes with the clone, thus enabling
it to perform all of his psionic powers.
This power has a serious drawback. As long
as the clone exists, the psionicist himself is
practically a turnip. He retains only three
senses: smell, taste, and touch. He cannot
move, see, or hear. AU his psionic powers are
transferred to the clone. In effect, the immo-
bile character is no longer a psionicist; not
even psionic sense will reveal his true nature.
He can be slain without any combat rolls if an
opponent wishes to do so.
The clone can travel up to 60 feet from the
psioqicist. It can go anywhere the psionicist
himsplf could go. For example, it can walk
down a corridor, walk across acid (the clone
has no substance and cannot be hurt), and
swim (provided the psionicist can). Because
the psionicist could walk through an unlocked
door, so can the clone-although the clone
passes through l i e a ghost. However, a clone
cannot travel through walls or walk on water,
because the psionicist could not either.
The clone is impervious to all forms of at-
tack and damage except psionic or mental at-
tack (which will affect the psionicist).
Power Score-The clone can travel through
walls and other solid objects.
20-No other effect.
Psychic Surgery
Power Score: Wis -5
Initial Cost: contact
Maintenance Cost: lO/turn
Range: touch
Preparation Time: 10
Area of Effect: individual
Prerequisite: telepathy, contact
Psychic surgery allows a telepath to repair
psychic damage. He can even operate on him-
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self if need be, though his paver smre is re-
duced by 5 k~this case. Phobias, aversions,
idiocy, comas, seizures-all these psychic ail-
ments can be treated and eared, as well as
several others. Curses or ions-
such as geases and ch cured.
This power cannot awe possassian, either.
However, psychic s u r g q c m fMfirm that
the problem reaUy is possession, and caw force
the possessing entity into psianic conrbat if the
surgeon desires. This may be risky, since mea-
hws capable of possession are o h quite
powerful and the psioni
their power beforehand
psychic surgery could cure
rectly by forcing a psionidly weak entiw to
flee rather than face combat.
Most psychic d m e n k can be cured in one
tum or less. However, if the psicmkist's power
check result equals 1 or 2, the p d k m is par-
ticularly tricky and requires d
repair. If the power check fads, the
too great for the psionicist to fix.
again afier gaining another &ce level.
Special Operations: Psychic surgery has
two special uses. First, the smgeup can use rhis
power to help nonpsiordcists &ash
wild powers. If the psionkist pdorms
kind of operation
gains a -2 bonus to his
Chapter 1.)
The second operation can heffeck of
any power in the telepathy
nent with no maintenance CQ
rarely grateful, because the
stowed on the subject, only
way,apersoncanbepan
or fate-linked, for example. The fdiowjng re-
strictions apply:
1) The power must be m le (i.e., it
must have a maintenance cost).
2) The power must have a range of other
than zero.
3) The surgeon m&t know the power and
use it successfully on the patient.
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 4) A psionicist cannot use this type of sur-
gery on himself or on another psionicist.
If he tries, nothing happens.
5) At most, only one power can made per-
manent per turn. If the result of the
power check is 1 or 2, the procedure
takes two turns instead of one.
This procedure can also be reversed; i.e.,
psychic surgery can be used to remove a per-
manently implanted telepathic effect.
Power Score-The surgery takes only 5
rounds per ”implanted” power.
20-The surgeon cannot use this power suc-
cessfully again for ld4 days.
Split Personality
Power Score: Wis -5
Initial Cost: 40
Maintenance Cost: 6/round
Range: 0 Power Score:
Preparation Time: 1 Initial cost:
Area of Effect: personal
Prerequisites: psychic surgery,
10th level
This is not a psychosis; it’s the power to di-
vide one’s mind into two independent parts.
Each part functions in complete autonomy,
like two characters in one body, Both parts
communicate fully. Both can use psionic
powers, even at the same time. That means a
split personality can use twice as many psionic
powers per round. (The character’s total num-
ber of PSPs remains the same, however, with
both personalities drawing from it.) Alter-
nately, one personality can use psionic powers
while the other does something else-e.g.,
converse, ponder a puzzle, or control the body
in melee. Thus, split personality allows a char-
acter to fight physically and psionically at the
same time.
Mental attacks directed against the psioni-
cist affect only half of the mind. Contact must
be established separately with each half. If one
half is destroyed, controlled, or subdued
somehow, the other half can continue fighting
independently and retains control of the body.
Before he attempts to make his personality
whole again, the psionicist must make a sav-
ing throw vs. paralyzation if any of the fol-
lowing is true 1)he does not control both
portions of his mind, 2) he has unrepaired psy-
chic damage, or 3) is suffering unwanted con-
tact. A successful save means that his mind
returns to complete health and throws off all
undesired influences. Failure means that
afflicted portion of his mind becomes do
nant and he passes out for ld6 turns, but r
gains consciousness free of undesir
influences.
Power Score--The mind splits into thr
parts instead of two.
20-The character passes out for ld6 t
Ultrablast
wis -10
75
Maintenance Cost: 0
Range: 0
Preparation Time: 3
Area of Effect: 50‘radius
Prerequisites: 10th level
A character using psionic ultrablast can
overwhelm and damage nearby psyches.
do this, he casts thought waves in all dire
tions. In laymen’s terms, the psionicist ”
bles” psychically for three rounds. Th
consciousness bursts forth and a horrid, psy-
chic scream penetrates all minds within 50
feet. Victims may never be the same again.
All characters within 50 feet of the psionic
ultrablast must save vs. paralyzation. Failure
means they pass out for 2d6 turns. Those who
pass out must immediately save vs. paralyza-
tion again. If they fail a second time, they lose
all psionic power. Only psychic surgery c
help them recover.this loss.
Although the blast does not affect the initi
tor, therisksaregreat. Ifthepowercheckfa
he becomes comatose for Idlo days. So
characters may think he‘s dead.
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Power Score-Creatures of 3 hit dice or less
die if they fail their save.
20-The initiator must save vs. paralyza-
tion or die. If he lives, he loses the use of all his
psionic powers for 2d6 days.
Metapsionic Devotions
Cannibalize
Power Score: Con
Initial Cost: 0 When psioniasts put their heads together,
Maintenance Cost: M me results can be impressive. Convergence al-
Range: 0 lows psionicists to link their minds into one
Preparation Time: 0 synergetic beii-an entity more powerful
Area of Effect: personal
Prerequisites: 5th level
This power allows the character to canni-
balize his own body for extra PSPs. When it is
used, the character can take any number of
Constitution points and convert them directly
to PSPs at a ratio of 1:s. (One Constitution
point becomes e& psionic strength points.)
The psionicist can use these points anytime, as
if they were part of his total.
The Constitution reduction is not perma-
nent, but it is debilitating and long-lasting.
The character immediately loses bonus hit
points. His system shock and resurrection sur-
vival chances are reduced. Most importantly,
all of his psionic power scores which are based
on Constitution are reduced by the appropri-
ate amount.
A psionicist can recover one cannibalized
point of Constitution per week of rest. Rest
means staying quietly at home (safely in-
doors). Adventuring is not allowed.
Power Score-The psionicist gains 8 PSPs
without reducing his Constitution.
20-The character loses ld4 Constitution
points, but can regain them by resting.
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Convergence
Power score: Wis
Initial cost: 8
Maintenance Cost: 0
Range
Preparation Time: 1
Area of Effect:
Prerequisites:
than the sum of the individual parts.
There is no limit to the number of psionicists
who join minds. Each participating psionicist
must know the convergence power, however,
and each must make a succedul power check
in the same round. Then they are linked. All
their PSPs flow into a single pool, from which
each draws his strength. If one participant
knows a power, now anyone in the group can
use it.
Each participant can use psionic powers at
the normal rate per turn:one defense and one
other power per round. If the group is at-
tacked psionicdy, the attack must overcome
every working defense. If it does, the attack
affects every character in the convergence, or
as many as possible.
When the convergence is discontinued,
PSPs that remain in the pool are evenly di-
vided amongall the participants. Fractions are
rounded down, and no individual can exceed
his usual maximum (extra points are lost).
Power Score-No other effect.
2O-The participant loses Id20 PSPs.
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Enhancement dde to do so (no power check is required).
Otherwise, the girding remains in place until
Power Score: Wis -3 the psionicist runs out of PSPs. That means a
initial Cost: 30 psionicist who's unconscious or sleeping could
Maintenance Cost: 8/round awaken to find all his psionic strength girded
Range: 0 away. If the psionicist wishes to reestablish a
Preparation Time: 5 gird that he discontinued, he must make a new
4rea of Effect: personal power check.
Prerequisites: 6th level Power Score-No other effect.
20-The gird attempt disrupts the power.
This power yields the same results as the
Meditative Focus proficiency, in less time. Intensify
When a psionicist learns this power, he selects
one discipline to enhance. As long as he main- Power Score: Affected - 3
tains the enhancement power, all of his power Initial Cost: Wincrease
scores within the chosen discipline are in- Maintenance Cost: l/round
creased by two. At the same time, all other Range: 0
Jower scores are reduced by one. Preparation Time: Wincrease
Power Score-Other scores are not re- Area of Effect: wrsonal
ked. Prerequisites: rd level
20-All power scores in the chosen disci-
pline are reduced by one for 24 hours. Intensify allows the psionicist to improve
either his Constitution, his Intelligence, or his
Gird Wisdom for psionic applications. To improve
one-for psionic purposes only-he -must
Power Score: Int -3 weaken the other two-for all purposes. Each
Initial Cost: 0 point of increase in the targeted ability de-
Maintenance Cost: 2 x maintenance creases the other two abilities by the same
Range: 0 amount. In addition, each point of incre
Preparation Time: 0 costs 5 PSPs.
Area of Effect: personal For example, Zenita is a psionidst with C
Prerequisites: 3rd level 15,Int 16, and Wis 17. She.wantsto intensify
her Intelliienceby 4 points. To do so, she must
Each time a psionicist girds another power, spend 20 PSPs initially (5 PSPs for each bonus
he can maintain that power automatically- point of Intelligence). Her Intelligence is raised
i.e., without mental concentration. Thus, a 4 points to 20. Meanwhile, her Constitution
psionicist who is maintaining only girded and Wisdom scores drop 4 points (to 11and
powers can sleep without disrupting those 13, respectively). The increase in Intelligence
powers. affects psionic powers only. The drop in Con-
To use gird, the psionicist must first initiate stitution and Wisdom affects everything appli-
and maintain the power he intends to affect. cable except psionic strength points: psionic
Then he must make a girding power check. If power scores, hps, system shock rolls, saving
he succeeds, he automatically pays twice the throws, spell bonuses, spell failure, etc.
normal maintenance cost for the girded A psionicist can raise an ability score to a
power-or a minimum of 1PSP per hour. To maximum of 25, provided he has enough PSPs
remove the girdmg, he must consciously de- and no other score is reduced below zero.

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Power Score-The character's ability is Martlal Trance

raised to the level he intended, but the cost of
this power is reduced to 3 PSPs per increased Power Score: Wis -3
point. Initial Cost: 7
20-The psionicist must make a system Maintenance Cost: 0 (free
shock roll or the ability he intended to boost Range:
decreases by 1point for 24 hours. Preparation Time: 1
Area of Effect:
Prerequisite:
Magnify
In some situations, the psionicis
Power Score: Wis -5 useful to enter a trance before engaging in psi-
Initial Cost: 25 X magnification onic combat. This trance focuses the charac-
Maintenance Cost: magnification/round ter's complete attention on his psionic activity
Range: 0 and tunes out all other distractions. While in
Preparation Time: 5 the trance, he gains a + 1bonus on all o
Area of Effect: personal Telepathy scores (all powers in the discipl
Prerequisites: 6th level The martial trance ends whenever the c
acter chooses to end it. It is not deep; the char-
Magnify allows the psionicist to magnify acter is brought out of it by any blow, shake,
the effects of another power in all conceivable or slap. His attention is completely occupied,
ways-e.g., double damage, double range, so any melee attack against him hits automati-
double modifiers, and so on. However, the af- cally and causes maximum damage.
fected power's initial cost is proportionately Power Score-He manages to maintain
magnified, as is its maintenance cost. enough awareness to dodge melee attacks.
The psionicist initiates the magnify power 20-No other effect.
first. At the same time, he must designate
which power he intends to improve. Unless he Prolong
maintains the magnification, he must immedi- Power Score: Con -4
ately use the power he wishes to improve (in Initial cost: 5
the same round). Otherwise he can maintain Maintmance Cost: t/round
the magnification until he uses the affected Range: 0
power (a costly endeavor). Once the power Preparation Time: 0
has been performed, magnify must be reini- Area of Effect: personal
tiated to perform again. Prerequisite: 4th level
The amount of magNfication depends upon P
the psionicist's level, as follows: When this power is in effect, the range of all
powers is in& by 50%,as is the radius of
their areas of effect. This has no effect on powers
Levels 6-10 x2 I

Levels 11-15 x3 ' with a range of zero or individual, nor does it al-
Levels 16-20 x4 ter personal, or singleitem areas of effect. It
does alter powers that affect a quantity of stuff;
Power Score-The magnification factor is prolonged disintegration, for example, destroys
one greater, with no additional cost. up to 12 cubic feet of material instead of 8.
20-The affected power becomes inopera- Power Score-The increase is 100%.
20-All rangedareas of effect are halved
tive for a day.
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 activity, even if it is only to maintain a power.
Use of the mind blank power is psionic activ-
Power Score: wis -5 ity, too, even though it expends no PSPs.
When the character makes his first success-
Maintenance Cost: 3/round ful power check, he learns whether or not
someone-or something-is psionically active
Preparation Time: 1 within range. If the psionicist makes a another
Area of Effect: 100-foot radius successful power check in the following
Prerequisites: 3rd level round, he also learns 1)how many PSPs are
being spent, and 2) where the psionic activity
When a psionicist invokes this power, he is occuring (direction and distance). If psionic
sends out a powerful ring of psionic noise (ex- activity is occurring in more than one place,
tending to 100 feet). All psionic activitywithin the psionicist gets a fix on all of it within 200
this area requires twice the normal initial cost yards.
and maintenance. The initiating psionicist is Power Score-Second-round information is
not affected; the noise actually begins about gained in the first round.
an inch beyond his aura, creating a bubble of 20-This power cannot be used effectively
relative quiet around him. for one turn.
Other psionicists in the area of effect will
not realize anything is wrong until they have
actually used a power. If they are maintaining
Psychic Drain
a power, they discover the inflated rate after
Power Score: WE -6
paying twice the normal maintenance cost.
If two psionicists initiate psionic inflation in Initial cost: lO/person + contact
Maintenance Cost: none
the same area, the psionicists must conduct a
Range: 30 yards
psychic contest. The loser’s psionic inflation
Preparation Time: 0
ceases. If both characters fail, then both cease
their power maintenance. Reroll ties. Area of Effect: up to 6 minds
Prerequisites: telepathy, contact,
Power Score-All psionic activity within
6th level
the area requires three times the n o d initial
cost and maintenance. Psychic drain enables the psionicist to tap
20-The psionicist cannot recover PSPs for
into the personal, psychic energy of other pea-
two hours.
ple to augment his own psionic strength. Up to
six people can be tapped at one time.
Psionic Sense Each subject, who is often called a host,
must first be asleep. Next, the psionicist must
Power Score: Wis -3 make contact with the person’s mind. Then he
Initial Cost: 4 expends another 10 PSPs and makes a psychic
Maintenance Cost: I/round drain power check. If he succeeds, the host
Range: 0 falls into a trance which lasts 4-9 (ld6+3)
Preparation Time: 0 hours. The character can be awakened with
Area of Effect: 200-yard radius some difficulty before then, but he‘ll be groggy
Prerequisites: telepathy and disoriented for another hour.
With psionic sense, a character can detect While the host is in the trance, the psionicist
psionic activity anywhere within 200 yards. can siphon psychic energy. Just as a vampire
Any expenditure of PSPs constitutes psionic draws blood to grow strong, the psionicist

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 drains Wisdom, Intelligence, and Constitution
points. He can drain as much as he desires. For
every ability point the psionicist drains, he
gains 10 PSPs.
Any PSPs gained cannot be banked (added
to the psionicist's total). They cannot be si-
phoned any faster than they are used. In other
words, when the psionicist expends PSPs, he
automatically draws these points from his
host(s)-unless he specifies otherwise. The
psionicist must remain withii range of the en-
tranced characters in order to draw strength
points from them.
If he exercises moderation, the psionicist
does not harm his hosts. A host only begins to
suffer ill effects when he loses more than 50%
of his psionic potential. (Potential equals Wis-
'dom, Intelligence, and Constitution com-
bined, minus 30 points. See "Psionic Strength
Points" in Chapter 1.)The table below shows
the effects of excessive depletion. Psychic sur-
gery can correct these problems.
Potential
Lost Effect on host
51-60% Temporary amnesia (2-12weeks)
61-70% Permanent amnesia
71-80% Intelligence reduced to 4
81-90% Intelligence reduced to 4; put in
coma for 1-12days, must make
system shock roll every day or
die
91-100% Save vs. death or die; if subject
lives, Intelligence, Wisdom, and
Constitution each reduced to 3,
permanently
Power Score-The psionicist does not harm
the subject(s) this time, regardless of how
much he drains.
20-Contact broken.
1 ht
Receptacle
Power Score: Wis -5
Initial Cost: 0
Maintenance Cost: 0
Range touch
Preparation Time 1round/point
Area of Effect: one item
Prerequisites: empower or valuable
gem
This power allows a psionicist to store psi-
onic energy in a special receptacle. The psioni-
cist can draw upon the energy later to fuel his
other psionic powers. He cannot use these
points when his total pool of psionic strength
is at its maximum. However, he can keep the
stored PSPs on hand until he's running low on
psionic energy, and then use them immedi-
ately. (It's like storing a pint of your own blood
at a hospital. With a little time, your body re-
places the pint. Later, if you should lose blood
in an accident or operation, you can use the
stored blood to recover the loss quickly.)
Before powers can be stored, a receptacle
must be prepared. Two types of containers are
appropriate: a vessel prepared with empower
(a metapsionic science), or a valuable gem that
has been specially prepared using the recepta-
cle power.
Empowered Vessel. Any vessel can serve as
a receptacle for psionic energy if it is empow-
ered first. The psionicist must perform the ini-
tial preparation and fiial sealing described
earlier under "empower." He does not do any-
thing further; the vessel needs no additional
powers. It can hold PSPs equal to his psionic
potential, multiplied by his experience level.
Valuable Gem. A gem can hold 1PSP for
every 100 gold pieces of its worth, rounded
down. For example, a gem worth 650 gold
pieces can hold 6 PSPs, and a gem worth 1,000
gold pieces can hold 10 PSPs. The gem still re-
quires preparation, however. To do this, the
psionicist must slowly fill the gem with
PSPs-1 per turn-until the gem reaches max-
imum capacity (Vim of its value). The psioni-

When the task is complete, the psionicist must
make a power check. If he fails, only one-half
of the gem‘s capacity is useable.
Storing Points. Using his receptacle power,
he can automatically place 1 PSP into a prop-
erly prepared container per round. When he is
finished, the psionicist must make a receptacle
power check. If it succeeds, all is well; if it
fails, only half the points he expended are
stored in the receptacle, while the rest are
merely spent.
Using Stored Points. The psionicist can re-
trieve stored points automatically. The recep-
tacle must be in contact with his flesh. He can
never retrieve more points than the receptacle
currently holds, nor can he retrieve so many
that it raises his current psionic point total
above his maximum. N o matter how many re-
ceptacles he has, a psionicist can never store
more PSPs than his maximum total. (For ex-
ample, if his usual maximum is 100 PSPs, he
can store no more than 100.) Only the psioni-
cist who placed the points in the item can use
them.
The danger of this power is receptacle loss.
If the receptacle is damaged or destroyed, its
contents (PSPs) are instantly subtracted from
the psionicist’s total possible points. This loss
is temporary, but until the psionicist is once
again back up to his full PSP score he recovers
PSPs only half as fast as normal.
Power Score-No other effect.
20-No other effect.
Retrospection
Power Score: Wis - 4
Initial Cost: 120
Maintenance Cost: na
Range: 0 .Range:
Preparation Time: 10
Area of Effect: persona1
Prerequisites: convergence, 7th level
Retrospection is a kind of psionic seance. It
allows psionicists to delve into the past and lo-
cate memories that have been loosed from
other minds. A psionicist must join at least
two other psionicists in a convergence before
he can use this power. He-or one of the other
participants in the convergence-then poses a
question regarding a specific event in the past.
To find the answer, the psionicist must make a
successful power check.
When retrospection succeeds, th
ters tap into a universal, pervasive
They have access to any informatio
existed in anyone’s memory regarding the
dent they are investigating. The amount o
tail that comes to mind depends on pow
check results:
1 extremely vague and fragmentary
2 vague or incomplete
3-5 complete but not very specific
6 + reasonably complete and specific
Memories bear the mark of the personaliti
who created them. The DM should role-play
the memories accordmgly, not just recite infor-
mation. If the psionicists’ alignments differ
significantly from the memories’ alignments,
reaction rolls are in order. Memories can be
polite and helpful, or they can be cantanker-
ous and downright rude. Memories which
have lain undisturbed for centuries may be an-
gered by the intrusion, or they may be de-
lighted for the chance to air themselves out
and bring the truth to light.
Power Score-No other effect.
20-No other effect.
Splice
Power Score: Int - ( 2 x # spliced)
Initial Cost: 5 x # spliced
Maintenance Cost: # spliced/round
0
Preparation Time: # spliced
Area of Effect: personal
Prerequisites: 2 + level (see below)
Splicing psionic powers is tremendous
useful. In effect, the psionicist is splicing t
gether two or more separate powers into one
psionic release. This is very difficult, however,
and it requires great precision. The more
powers the psionicist attempts to splice, the
more likely he is to fail.
First, the character must make a successful
splice check. His power score is decreased 2
points for each power being spliced. For exam-
ple, if he is splicing two powers, his score
equals Intelligence -4. The initial cost of this
endeavor is 5 PSPs for every power being
spliced.
If the character passes this first power
check, he must then initiate each spliced
power in succession-without interruption.
He does not have to make a separate splicing
check for each of these powers, but he still
pays their initial costs. Furthermore, each
spliced power has absolutely no effect at this
time.
Once all the powers have been initiated, the
psionicist must make a second splice check.
(His power score is still reduced two points for
each power being spliced.) If he fails this
check, all his efforts are lost; the PSPs he spent
are gone, and none of the powers works. If the
power check succeeds, the psionicist can
maintain the splice by expending 1 PSP per
spliced power per round.
At any later time (during which the splice
has been maintained), the psionicist can un-
leash the spliced series of powers. In effect, he
performs all of the spliced powers simultane-
ously-or with split second separations if de-
sired. Success is not automatic. The psionicist
must perform the individual power checks for
these spliced powers when he releases them.
He does not have to pay their initial costs
again, however.
The maximum number of powers that a
psionicist can splice equals his experience
level. For example, a 2nd level psionicist can
splice up to two powers, and a 3rdlevel psioni-
cist can splice up to three. A complex splice is a
long shot at best, however. As noted above, a
psionicist’s power score decreases two points
-1
for every power he attempts to splice. That
means a character who attempts a five-power
splice has a score of Int -10.
Many psionicists use splice to combine just
two powers: contact, and another power that
requires contact. This is the most common
combination.
Power Score-The character receives a +2
bonus on power checks when unleashing the
spliced powers.
20-No other effect.
Stasis Field
Power Score: Con -3
Initial cost: 20
Maintenance Cost: 20/round or l/round
Range: 0
Preparation Time: 3
Area of Effect: max. 1 yard/level
Prerequisites: 8th level
A stasis field is a region in which time slows
to a crawl and energy is reduced to a meaning-
less fizzle. When created, the stasis field sur-
rounds the psionicist l i e a bubble. It can have
any radius he desires, up to a maximum of 1
yard per each level of his experience. For ex-
ample, a 10th level psionicist can create a field
with up to a 10-yard radius.
From the outside, the stasis field looks like a
sliitly shimmering, completely smooth silver
globe. When something presses against the
edge, it gives slight resistance, but the object
passes through.
Inside the field, all is murky and dim. Light
filters through from the outside, but it turns
gray. A light source inside is only about one-
fourth as bright as usual.
Time is 60 times slower in a stasis field. That
is, for every round (or minute) that passes in-
side, an hour elapses outside. (This dilation is
not apparent to those inside the field, how-
ever.) Each round the psionicist spends inside,
he must pay 20 points to maintain the stasis
field.
 Energy and motion also change inside a sta-
sis field. Energy magicks-e.g., fireball, magic
missile, cone of cold, and flumestrike-have
no effect; the spells appear and then fizzle in
midair. Movement is slowed down visibly,
and swift objects are affected more than slow
objects. Character and creature movement
rates are halved. A dagger can easily be
pushed through someone, but a lightninglike
slash with a sword is slowed to a graceful arc,
almost like slow motion. A missile weapon is
useless; the missile drifts lazily through the air,
only to bounce off an unwary target or be
dodged by a target who's looking.
If the psionicist keeps the stasis field cen-
tered on himself, it moves with him. He can
transfer the focal point of the field to anything
he touches, however. Then he can move freely
within the field, or even leave it. If he does
leave the field, the cost to maintain it is re-
duced to 1 point per round. (From one per-
spective, this is actually an increase in cost,
since it equals 60 points for every round which
passes inside. Remember, one hour outside
equals one round inside.) While outside the
field, the psionicist can roam up to 100 yards
from it and still maintain the field. However,
he cannot move the field from the outside. To
move it again, he must re-enter it.
Power Score-No other effect.
20-The psionicist pays the full initial PSP
cost.
Wrench
Power Score: Wis -4
Initial Cost: 15
Maintenance Cost: 8/round
Range: 30 yards
Preparation Time: 0
Area of Effect: 1 undead
Prerequisites: none
This power affects only creatures which ex-
ist simultaneously on the Prime Material and
another plane of existence. This includes most
undead, and others as noted in the Monstrou
Compendium. It specifically excludes
demigods, and avatars. When such a cr
is wrenched, it is forced entirely into one p
or the other, at the psionicist's option.
If the creature is forced out of the Prime
terial plane, it is trapped in the other plan
2d6 turns. It can return to the Prime Materi
when that time has elapsed.
If the creature is wrenched entirely into th
Prime Material plane, it is trapped only
long as the psionicist continues paying t
maintenance cost. As soon as he stops, t
creature's dual existence is immediately r
tablished.
Except where contradicted by the Mo
strous Compendium, a creature wrenche
onto the Prime Material plane suffers any
all of the following effects, at the DMs optio
Its armor class is penalized Id6 points.
Undead lose the ability to drain life en-
ergy.
- -~lusesreauired to hit the crea-
Magical
ture are reduced by 1.
The creature is killed permanently if
loses all of its hit points.
The DM should impose any other penalti
which seem appropriate, considering the crea-
ture and the other plane invol
Power Score-The crea
dazed. It has a -2 initiativep
ubsequent round.
20-No other effect.
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